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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: new interface files makes MPW pascal go -108
Keywords: new mpw interface files make pascal act strange
Message-ID: <14041@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 91 21:25:28 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.175424.27075@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <20687@slice.ooc.uva.nl> <1991Jun10.052704.13068@rata.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: Object Based Systems, Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <1991Jun10.052704.13068@rata.vuw.ac.nz> newbery@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Newbery) writes:
>
>But it doesn't exactly speed up the compile! -clean says "erase all symbol
>table resources" which means (I presume) that it throws the header
>information away. The newly created resources are not 'clean' enough to
>enable the compile to proceed the second time around.

-clean should only have to be used once.  The symbol information is stored
in the resource fork, and it's possible that the resource fork has been
damaged.  -clean would ignore it, but wouldn't be able to recreate it.

(I had a similar problem where MPW wouldn't save my window size and
location.  The problem turned out to be a bad resource fork.)

You can try using RezDet to see if the resource fork is damaged, or use
dupliacte -d to duplicate only the data fork to another file and then
replace the bad header.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.

lsr@apple.com
(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)